funding: participatory research in health

Sat Dec 11 08:42:13 CST 2004

From: "Celine Liu" <celineliu13 at yahoo.com>

>From the National CAPACD listserve.

Community Participation in Research 
PA Number: PAR-05-026 

Components of Participating Organizations
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR),
(http://obssr.od.nih.gov <http://obssr.od.nih.gov/> )
National Cancer Institute (NCI), (http://www.nci.nih.gov
<http://www.nci.nih.gov/> )
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI),
(http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov <http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/> )
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD),
(http://www.nichd.nih.gov <http://www.nichd.nih.gov/> )
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR),
(http://wwww.nidcr.nih.gov <http://wwww.nidcr.nih.gov/> )
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS),
(http://www.niehs.nih.gov <http://www.niehs.nih.gov/> )
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR),
(http://ninr.nih.gov/ninr/)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA),
(http://www.niaaa.nih.gov <http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/> )
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), (http://www.nimh.nih.gov

<http://www.nimh.nih.gov/> )
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
(NIDCD), (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov <http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/> )
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), (http://www.ahrq.gov
<http://www.ahrq.gov/> )
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
(http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html) 

Key Dates 
Release Date: December 2, 2004
Letters of Intent Receipt Date (s): April 17, 2005, 2006, 2007
Application Receipt Dates(s): May 17, 2005, 2006, 2007
Peer Review Date(s): October-November, 2005, 2006, 2007
Council Review Date(s): January-February, 2006, 2007, 2008
Earliest Anticipated Start Date: April 2006
Expiration Date: May 18, 2007 

The goal of this PAR is to support research on health promotion, disease
prevention, and health disparities that is jointly conducted by
communities and researchers. This PAR invites NIH research project grant
(R01) and exploratory/developmental grant (R21) award mechanisms.
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is defined as scientific
inquiry conducted in communities and in partnership with researchers.
The process of scientific inquiry is such that community members,
persons affected by the health condition, disability or issue under
study, or other key stakeholders in the community's health have the
opportunity to be full participants in each phase of the work (from
conception - design - conduct - analysis - interpretation - conclusions
- communication of results). CBPR is characterized by substantial
community input in the development of the grant application
(http://www.niehs.nih.gov/translat/cbpr/cbpr.htm).

Community-partnered approaches to research promise to deepen our
scientific base of knowledge in the areas of health promotion, disease
prevention, and health disparities. Community-partnered research
processes offer the potential to generate better-informed hypotheses,
develop more effective interventions, and enhance the translation of the
research results into practice. Specifically, involving community and
academic partners as research collaborators may improve the quality and
impact of research by: 
o        More effectively focusing the research questions on health
issues of greatest relevance to the communities at highest risk; 
o        Enhancing recruitment and retention efforts by increasing
community buy-in and trust; 
o        Enhancing the reliability and validity of measurement
instruments (particularly survey) through in-depth and honest feedback
during pre-testing; 
o        Improving data collection through increased response rates and
decreased social desirability response patterns; 
o        Increasing relevance of intervention approaches and thus
likelihood for success; 
o        Targeting interventions to the identified needs of community
members 
o        Developing intervention strategies that incorporate community
norms and values into scientifically valid approaches; 
o        Increasing accurate and culturally sensitive interpretation of
findings; 
o        Facilitating more effective dissemination of research findings
to impact public health and policy; 
o        Increasing the potential for translation of evidence-based
research into sustainable community change that can be disseminated more
broadly. 

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